Flowers Against Fascism

Fifty years ago, San Francisco became world famous for the Summer of Love. It was a frightening time to be alive in 1967, and young people from across the country descended upon the City to tune into a love frequency that they hoped would reverberate against the violence and war marring the globe.

Now in 2017, we find ourselves in similarly frightening times, and any social progress we have made in the last fifty, nay, the last 200 years is at risk of being undone. Fascist ideologues have reached the highest levels of authority, and those now descending upon our fair city are fascists, not hippies. Let us remind them that the Summer of Love never ended — it’s just been resting in the fog.

Organizers of the rally-now-press-conference claim to dissassociate themselves with white supremacy and only want a peace and love to unite Americans. If that’s the case, then we’ll tune into the love frequency again to show them just how peace and love is done — with flowers for their hair. Bring all the cut flowers you can gather to Alamo Square to distribute in the name of equality and against fascism. Flower crowns strongly encouraged!! Bring your instruments and sing along! Summertime will be a love-in there…

We will meet at Frederick Douglass Plaza at Pierce & Fell Sts before walking up to Alamo Square Park together at NOON. We’ll proceed into the park at 12:30pm. There are bathrooms in the park, and we will take a wheel-accessible route into the park.

Access notes: Flowers Against Fascism is an all abilities inclusive contingent, as well as elder-friendly. We will be doing a check-in with each other before we proceed into the rally zone to ensure we are prepared to support each others’ access and health needs so that we can all represent to our greatest capacity without self-injury. The route is normally wheel-accessible, though it’s unclear how law enforcement precautions will impact access at this point. Bathrooms may be limited inside the rally area.

**Folks who would like to give financial contributions for locally bought flowers should contact the event host.

**Given the outcomes of recent white supremacist rallies, it is expected that violence and terrorism will be directed towards peaceful protesters without provocation. Project participants attend the rally at our own risk, and we likely won’t be able to rely on law enforcement if we are in danger. The danger level has increased significantly now that the rally has moved from Crissy Field to Alamo Square.